English martyrs
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August 30th – Saint of the Day: Saint Margaret Ward, Wife, Servant & Martyr
She walked into one of England’s most feared prisons with a basket of bread. 🧺 Hidden underneath? A rope. 🪢 Margaret Ward wasn’t a nun, a noble, or a scholar. She was a servant. And when she heard a priest… Continue reading
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August 5th – Saint of the Day: Saint Oswald of Northumbria, King & Martyr
A king gave away his Easter dinner. Then he smashed the silver dish it came on and gave that away too. 👑🔥 Meet Saint Oswald of Northumbria, the warrior king nobody talks about enough. ⚔️ Exiled at 12 after his… Continue reading
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July 1st – Saint of the Day: Saint Oliver Plunkett, Bishop & Martyr
He was convicted of high treason. ⚖️ His actual crime? Being a Catholic priest. 😤 Saint Oliver Plunkett was the last Catholic martyr executed in England, hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn in 1681 for the “crime” of promoting the… Continue reading
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June 28th – Saint of the Day: Saint John Southworth, Priest & Martyr
⚔️ His judge wept while condemning him. The foreign ambassadors begged him to lie. He said no. Meet Saint John Southworth — the priest who walked into a plague epidemic in a country where being a priest was already a… Continue reading
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June 23rd – Saint of the Day: Saint Thomas Garnet, Jesuit Priest & Martyr
He was arrested, banished, warned not to return… and came back anyway. 🔥 Saint Thomas Garnet was a young Jesuit priest in post-Reformation England, when being Catholic could cost you your freedom, your family, and your life. But English Catholics… Continue reading
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June 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saints John Fisher (Bishop, Cardinal, Scholar & Theologian) and Thomas More (Husband, Father, Lawyer, Author & Lord Chancellor of England), Martyrs & Defenders of the Faith
Two men. One king. Zero compromise. ⚔️🔥 Saints John Fisher and Thomas More lived in a time when saying “no” to power could cost you everything. Saint John Fisher was the only English bishop who openly refused King Henry VIII’s… Continue reading
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June 21st – Saint of the Day: Saint John Rigby, Layman & Martyr
He went to court for someone else… and walked out condemned to death. ⚖️🔥 Saint John Rigby was not a priest, bishop, monk, or famous preacher. He was a Catholic layman in Elizabethan England, living in a time when staying… Continue reading
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May 4th – Saint of the Day: Saints John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, and Richard Reynolds, Martyrs
They were told to choose: obey the king or stay faithful to Christ. 👑✝️ Saints John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, and Richard Reynolds chose Christ. On May 4, 1535, these holy Catholic men were taken to Tyburn and executed… Continue reading
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March 22nd – Saint of the Day: Saint Nicholas Owen, Carpenter, Jesuit Lay Brother & Martyr
Hidden in the walls of persecuted England was a man helping keep the Catholic faith alive. 🕯️🔨 Saint Nicholas Owen was not a priest, bishop, or famous preacher. He was a carpenter. A quiet layman. A master builder of secret… Continue reading
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